[WikiEN-l] Notability and ski resorts (was: Newbie and not-so-newbie biting)

[Andrew Gray]

2009/9/23 Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>:

> Because transclusions like that are dynamic, that sort of thing
> severely messes up the page history - you can't see what the article
> looked like at any one time, because the editing took place in the
> subarticles, not on the main article, and even if you look back at
> that page version "12 July 2009", what you are seeing there is
> transclusions of what the lead sections of the subarticles say *now*.

Mmm. Transclusions of summaries like this is bad, but actually
*writing* summary sections, cited and robust, with {{main|whatever}}
at the top is a perfectly legitimate way of dealing with a sprawling
topic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States is a pretty good example -
almost every single section and subsection there is effectively a
summary of a larger, more focused, article on one aspect of the
subject.

> Is the fact that this is the only presidential transition to get its
> own article because this is the most intensely documented presidential
> transition in history? Or is it because Wikipedia's segmented coverage
> of Barack Obama's life has gone too far? Or is it because the other
> articles on presidential transitions have yet to be written?

Never underestimate the effects of recentism ;-)

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk